#1 Introduction +
Where is the digital revolution?
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Lucerne
23 February 2023
AI is a moving target with respect to …
An image segmentation by Facebook’s Detectron2 (Wu et al. 2019)
Recognizing speech regardless of language, accent, speed, noise etc.
Check out samples of Whisper (Radford et al. 2022)
Check demo for Swiss German (Plüss et al. 2021)
Personalizing voice given an audio sample of 3s
Breakthrough by combining language processing and image generation with Muse (Chang et al. 2023)
Editing pictures with Muse using natural language (Chang et al. 2023)
Coding is a superpower …
… to tackle complex problems on scale
directed country mentions in UN speeches
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 23 February 2023 | Introduction + Where is the digital revolution? |
| 02 March 2023 | Text as Data |
| 09 March 2023 | Setting up your Development Environment |
| 16 March 2023 | Introduction to the Command-line |
| 23 March 2023 | Basic NLP with Command-line |
| 30 March 2023 (Zoom) | Learning Regular Expressions |
| 06 April 2023 (Zoom) | Working with (your own) Data |
| no lecture (Osterpause) | |
| 20 April 2023 | Ethics and the Evolution of NLP |
| 27 April 2023 | Introduction to Python + VS Code |
| 04 May 2023 | Data Analysis of Swiss Media |
| 11 May 2023 | NLP with Python |
| no lecture (Christi Himmelfahrt) | |
| 25 May 2023 | NLP with Python II + Working Session |
| 01 June 2023 | Mini-Project Presentations + Discussion |
🖥️ There are two digital lectures via Zoom.
You will be tech-savvy…
…yet no programmer applying fancy machine learning
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